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Top Films by Director (F-G)

Asghar Farhadi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Separation 2011 747

Valerie Faris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Miss Sunshine1 2006 607

1 Collaborated with Jonathan Dayton.

Bobby Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 455
2 Kingpin1 1996 1339

1 Collaborated with Peter Farrelly.

Peter Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 455
2 Dumb & Dumber 1994 939
3 Kingpin1 1996 1339
4 Green Book 2018 2390

1 Collaborated with Bobby Farrelly.

Forugh Farrokhzad

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The House Is Black 1963 1870

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 430
2 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 819
3 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 1174
4 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 1344
5 In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 2043
6 World on a Wire 1973 2240
7 Fox and His Friends 1975 2282
8 Lola 1981 2352
9 Veronika Voss 1982 2799
10 Querelle 1982 2806

Jon Favreau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Iron Man 2008 537
2 Elf 2003 1154
3 The Jungle Book 2016 2631

John Fawcett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ginger Snaps 2000 2106

Mu Fei

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spring in a Small Town 1948 2354

Paul Feig

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bridesmaids 2011 724

Federico Fellini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 74
2 La Dolce Vita 1960 86
3 La Strada 1954 276
4 Amarcord 1973 367
5 Nights of Cabiria 1957 496
6 I Vitelloni 1953 1343
7 Fellini Satyricon 1969 2023
8 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 2109

Charles Ferguson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Inside Job 2010 1739

Norman Ferguson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 266

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield.

Abel Ferrara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bad Lieutenant 1992 961
2 King of New York 1990 1255

Louis Feuillade

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Les Vampires 1915 903
2 Fantomas 1913 2682

Glenn Ficarra

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crazy, Stupid, Love. 1 2011 2657

1 Collaborated with John Requa.

Todd Field

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Children 2006 1724
2 In the Bedroom 2001 2740

Mike Figgis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 1308

M. Filimonova

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ivan the Terrible, Part II1 1958 1251

1 Collaborated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

David Fincher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 71
2 Seven 1995 102
3 The Social Network 2010 514
4 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 1029
5 Zodiac 2007 1037
6 The Game 1997 1173
7 Gone Girl 2014 1542
8 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 1964

Robert Fiore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1617

1 Collaborated with George Butler.

Terrence Fisher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Horror of Dracula 1958 875
2 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 2395
3 The Devil Rides Out 1968 2753

Robert J. Flaherty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nanook of the North 1922 411
2 Man of Aran 1934 1980

Ryan Fleck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sugar1 2008 2316

Richard Fleischer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Soylent Green 1973 1040
2 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 1159
3 Fantastic Voyage 1966 1500
4 The Narrow Margin 1952 2216

Ruben Fleischer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zombieland 2009 2217

Victor Fleming

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 15
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 32
3 Captains Courageous 1937 2092

James Foley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 914

Ari Folman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Waltz with Bashir 2008 400

John Ford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 37
2 Stagecoach 1939 140
3 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 178
4 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 209
5 My Darling Clementine 1946 363
6 The Quiet Man 1952 619
7 How Green Was My Valley 1941 708
8 Fort Apache 1948 951
9 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 975
10 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 1009
11 How the West Was Won1 1962 1530
12 Mister Roberts2 1955 1627
13 Rio Grande 1950 1791
14 The Informer 1935 1868
15 Wagon Master 1950 1890
16 They Were Expendable 1945 1911
17 The Iron Horse 1924 1956

1 Collaborated with Henry Hathaway and George Marshall.
2 Collaborated with Mervyn LeRoy.

Tom Ford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Single Man 2009 2087

Milos Forman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 38
2 Amadeus 1984 163
3 Loves of a Blonde 1965 1428
4 Hair 1979 1746
5 The Firemen's Ball 1967 1862
6 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 2459
7 Man on the Moon 1999 2742

Marc Forster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Finding Neverland 2004 1313

Bill Forsyth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Local Hero 1983 894
2 Gregory's Girl 1980 904

Bob Fosse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabaret 1972 224
2 All That Jazz 1979 486
3 Lenny 1974 2114

Jonathan Frakes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 1672

David France

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Survive a Plague 2012 2729

Georges Franju

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eyes without a Face 1960 406
2 Le Sang des bętes 1949 2394

Melvin Frank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 1115

1 Collaborated with Norman Panama.

David Frankel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 2591
2 The Devil Wears Prada 2006 2675

1 Collaborated with Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To.

John Frankenheimer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 214
2 Seconds 1966 817
3 The Train 1964 1064
4 Ronin 1998 1784
5 Seven Days in May 1964 2018

Carl Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One False Move 1992 1535
2 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 1938

Sidney Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Good Earth 1937 2689

James Frawley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Muppet Movie 1979 723

Stephen Frears

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 869
2 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 1008
3 High Fidelity 2000 1052
4 The Grifters 1990 1261
5 The Queen 2006 1498

Charles Frend

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cruel Sea 1953 1887

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 28 Weeks Later 2007 2788

Karl Freund

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mummy 1932 1527

Ron Fricke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Baraka 1992 1720

William Friedkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Exorcist 1973 88
2 The French Connection 1971 172
3 Cruising 1980 1549
4 Sorcerer 1977 1747
5 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 1777
6 The Boys in the Band 1970 2124
7 Blue Chips 1994 2617

Jeffrey Friedman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Celluloid Closet1 1995 2284

1 Collaborated with Rob Epstein.

Kinji Fukasaku

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Battle Royale 2000 600

Lucio Fulci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Beyond 1981 2308

Samuel Fuller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pickup on South Street 1953 542
2 The Big Red One 1980 697
3 Shock Corridor 1963 1060
4 Forty Guns 1957 1471
5 The Steel Helmet 1951 1819
6 The Naked Kiss 1964 1847

Antoine Fuqua

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Training Day 2001 2728

Sidney J. Furie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ipcress File 1965 912

Mike Gabriel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pocahontas1 1995 2758

1 Collaborated with Eric Goldberg.

Vincent Gallo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Buffalo '66 1998 1465

Abel Gance

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Napoléon 1927 500

Luis García Berlanga

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Not on Your Life 1963 2210

Alex Garland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ex Machina 2014 1983
2 Annihilation 2018 2570

Tay Garnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 954

Matteo Garrone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gomorrah 2008 2256

James Gartner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glory Road 2006 2727

Louis J. Gasnier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reefer Madness 1936 2329

Leon Gast

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 When We Were Kings 1996 569

Jean Genet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Un chant d'amour 1950 2075

Terry George

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hotel Rwanda 2004 789

Pietro Germi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 2621

Clyde Geronimi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One Hundred and One Dalmatians1 1961 755
2 Lady and the Tramp2 1955 811
3 Cinderella2 1950 847
4 Sleeping Beauty 1959 974
5 Alice in Wonderland2 1951 1310
6 Peter Pan2 1953 1396

1 Collaborated with Hamilton Luske and Wolfgang Reitherman.
2 Collaborated with Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske.

Sacha Gervasi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Anvil! The Story of Anvil 2008 1912

Greta Gerwig

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lady Bird 2017 1929

Octavio Getino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1968 1762

1 Collaborated with Fernando E. Solanas and Santiago Álvarez.

Ritwik Ghatak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 2481

Alex Gibney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Taxi to the Dark Side 2007 2063
2 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005 2145

Mel Gibson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Braveheart 1995 185
2 The Passion of the Christ 2004 1407
3 Hacksaw Ridge 2016 1727
4 Apocalypto 2006 1879

Lewis Gilbert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alfie 1966 1418
2 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 2017

Craig Gillespie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lars and the Real Girl 2007 2461

Terry Gilliam

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail1 1975 111
2 Brazil 1985 115
3 Twelve Monkeys 1995 354
4 Time Bandits 1981 851
5 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 1598
6 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 1937
7 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life1 1983 2019
8 The Fisher King 1991 2497

1 Collaborated with Terry Jones.

Dan Gilroy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nightcrawler 2014 1811

Tony Gilroy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Michael Clayton 2007 2027

Marco Tullio Giordana

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Best of Youth 2003 1147

Jonathan Glazer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sexy Beast 2000 941
2 Under the Skin 2013 1338
3 Birth 2004 2672

Peter Glenville

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Becket 1964 2409

Will Gluck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Easy A 2010 1903

Jean-Luc Godard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 65
2 Contempt 1963 371
3 Pierrot le Fou 1965 422
4 Alphaville 1965 517
5 My Life to Live 1962 628
6 Band of Outsiders 1964 985
7 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1184
8 Week End 1967 1366
9 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 1569
10 Masculine Feminine 1966 2041
11 A Woman Is a Woman 1961 2766

Drew Goddard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cabin in the Woods 2011 2184

Eric Goldberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pocahontas1 1995 2758

1 Collaborated with Mike Gabriel.

Gary Goldman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Anastasia1 1997 2530

1 Collaborated with Don Bluth.

Michael Gondry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 76

Michael Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pillow Talk 1959 2014

Seth Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King of Kong 2007 1772

Steve Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arthur 1981 1690

Stuart Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Re-Animator 1985 843

Serif Gören

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 2405

1 Collaborated with Yilmaz Güney.

Edmund Goulding

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grand Hotel 1932 1274
2 Dark Victory 1939 2100
3 Nightmare Alley 1947 2139

Ashutosh Gowariker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 1436

Rachel Grady

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jesus Camp1 2006 2623

1 Collaborated with Heidi Ewing.

Debra Granik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Winter's Bone 2010 1000

F. Gary Gray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday 1995 1560
2 The Italian Job 2003 2656

Alfred E. Green

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Baby Face 1933 2551

David Gordon Green

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 George Washington 2000 1592

Peter Greenaway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 1102
2 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 1116

Paul Greengrass

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 384
2 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 737
3 United 93 2006 1012
4 Captain Phillips 2013 2181
5 Bloody Sunday 2002 2784

Nathan Greno

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tangled1 2010 1129

1 Collaborated with Byron Howard.

Tom Gries

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Will Penny 1967 2794

D.W. Griffith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Birth of a Nation 1915 312
2 Intolerance 1916 314
3 Broken Blossoms 1919 900
4 Way Down East 1920 2774

J. Mackye Gruber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Butterfly Effect1 2004 1405

1 Collaborated with Eric Bress.

Luca Guadagnino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Call Me by Your Name 2017 892

Christopher Guest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Best in Show 2000 849
2 Waiting for Guffman 1996 999

Davis Guggenheim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 An Inconvenient Truth 2006 1975

John Guillermin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Towering Inferno1 1974 2306

1 Collaborated with Irwin Allen.

Alain Guiraudie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stranger by the Lake 2013 2443

Sacha Guitry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Story of a Cheat 1936 2448

Yilmaz Güney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 2405

1 Collaborated with Serif Gören.

James Gunn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 648

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 1002

Patricio Guzmán

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battle of Chile: Part 1 1975 1808
2 The Battle of Chile: Part 2 1976 1884
3 The Battle of Chile: Part 3 1979 2015
4 Nostalgia for the Light 2010 2140
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